Figure 7. — Roper steam carriage now preserved in the Henry Ford Museum at 



Dearborn, Mich. 



years ago it was for a while exhibited by a "Professor" 

 W. W. Austin. Its date of construction is not known. 



Roper unfortunately met his death on June 1, 1896, while 

 operating his most recent steam vehicle, another two- 

 wheeler, on the Charles River bicycle track at Cambridge, 

 Mass. This machine is today exhibited at "Horn's Cars of 

 Yesterday," a museum at Sarasota, Fla. 



Luc/us D. Cope/and 



In 1883 or 1884 Lucius D. Copeland equipped a Star 

 bicycle with a small 1 -cylinder steam engine and a boiler 

 (fig. 8), and successfully operated the machine. Two or 

 three years later a tricycle (fig. 9) was similarly equipped 

 for Copeland by the Northrop Manufacturing Co., of Cam- 

 den, N. J. Articles on these machines appeared in many 

 engineering magazines of that time, and Sandford Nor- 

 throp 's associates issued a number of advertising brochures, 

 one of which is reproduced in figure 10, publicizing the 



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